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Cuvee de Pinot

Cuvee de Pinot Wine Details
Price: $12.90 per bottle

Description: This is a blend of grapes of the Pinot family: Pinot Blanc, Pinot Gris, and Auxerrois. The spicy aroma and citrus/melon taste produces an excellent pairing with seafood and poultry.

Varietal Definition
Auxerrois:
French local name for the Malbec, aka Cot red wine grape species grown in the Cahors region of France and also, confusingly, an important white wine grape in the Alsace region called the Auxerrois Blanc that is distinct from another locally grown white wine grape called the Auxerrois Gris that is actually the Pinot Gris varietal grape.
Pinot Blanc:
White grape popular for the dry white wines it produces. Increasingly grown in California, the Northwest, Northeast, Canada.


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